§125Non hic placet mi ornatus.
This attire does not please me.
Therefore no one prepared these things for you: they were prepared for me, whom they please.
§127Etiam me advorsus exordire argutias?
Do you still begin subtilties against me?
§128qui si decem habeas linguas, mutum esse addecet.
You, whom it would befit to be mute, even if you should have ten tongues.
§129Non omnis aetas, Lyde, ludo convenit.
Not every age, Lydus, is suited for play.
§130magis unum in mentemst mihi nunc, satis ut commode §131pro dignitate opsoni haec concuret cocus.
Rather, one thing is in my mind now, how the cook may dress these things appropriately enough, in keeping with the dignity of the marketing.
Already you have ruined yourself, and me, and my labor, who have often in vain pointed out to you what is good.
I lost my labor in the very same place where you lost yours: your training is of no use to me nor to you.
§136O praeligatum pectus.
O bound-up heart!
§136bOdiosus mihi es.
You are hateful to me.
§137tace atque sequere, Lyde, me.
Be silent and follow me, Lydus.
Just look at that, if you please; he no longer calls me his tutor, but Lydus.
§139Non par videtur neque sit consentaneum, §140cum haec qui emit intus sit et cúm amica accubet §141cumque osculetur et convivae alii accubent, §142praesentibus illis paedagogus una ut siet.
It does not seem right, nor would it be fitting, when he who bought these things is inside and reclining with his mistress, and kissing her, and other guests are reclining too, in their presence the tutor should be together with them.
§143An hoc ad eas res opsonatumst, obsecro?
Pray, is the marketing done for those purposes?
§144Sperat quidem animus: quo evenat dis in manust.
My mind indeed hopes so: how it may turn out is in the hands of the gods.
§145Tu amicam habebis?
Will you have a mistress?
§145bCum videbis, tum scies.
When you see, then you will know.
§146Immo neque habebis neque sinam. i prorsum domum.
Nay, you shall neither have one, nor will I allow it. Go straight home.
§147Omitte, Lyde, ac cave malo.
Let go, Lydus, and beware of trouble.
§147bQuid? cave malo?
What? "Beware of trouble"?
§148Iam excessit mi aetas ex magisterio tuo.
Already my age has escaped from your mastership.
§149O barathrum, ubi nunc es? ut ego te usurpem lubens.
O abyss, where are you now? How gladly would I make use of you!
§151vixisse nimio satiust iam quam vivere.
It is now much better to have lived than to be living.
§152magistron quemquam discipulum minitarier?
That any disciple should threaten his master?
§155Fiam, ut ego opinor, Hercules, tu autem Linus.
I shall become, as I suppose, Hercules, and you Linus.
By Pollux, I fear more lest I become Phoenix through your deeds, and report to your father that you are dead.
§158Satis historiarumst.
Enough of stories!
§158bHic vereri perdidit.
This fellow has lost all shame.
By Pollux, you made a saving by no means desirable for your age, when you acquired that impudence.
§161occisus hic homo est.
This man is ruined.
ecquid in mentem est tibi §162patrem tibi esse?
Does it at all come into your mind that you have a father?
§162bTibi ego an tu mihi servos es?
Am I a servant to you, or are you one to me?
§163Peior magister te istaec docuit, non ego.
A worse master taught you those things, not I.
§164nimio es tu ad istas res discipulus docilior, §165quam ad illa quae te docui, ubi operam perdidi.
You are a much more teachable disciple for those matters than for those things which I taught you, where I lost my labor.
Thus far, Lydus, freedom of speech has been granted to you.
satis est.
It is enough.
sequere hac me ac tace. — §170Erilis patria, salve, quam ego biennio, §171postquam hinc in Ephesum abii, conspicio lubens.
Follow me this way and be silent.— My master's homeland, hail! which I gladly behold after two years, since I departed hence to Ephesus.
§172saluto te, vicine Apollo, qui aedibus §173propinquos nostris accolis, veneroque te, §174ne Nicobulum me sinas nostrum senem §175prius cónvenire quam sodalem viderim §176Mnesilochi Pistoclerum, quem ad epistulam §177Mnesilochus misit super amica Bacchide.
I greet you, neighbor Apollo, who dwell close to our house, and I worship you, that you may not permit me to meet our old man Nicobulus before I shall have seen Mnesilochus' friend, Pistoclerus, to whom Mnesilochus sent me with a letter about his mistress Bacchis.
§178Mirumst me ut redeam te opere tanto quaesere, §179qui abire hinc nullo pacto possim, si velim: §180ita me vadatum amore vinctumque adtines.
It is a wonder that you seek me with so great effort when I return, since I could in no way depart hence, even if I wished: so bound by love and fettered do you hold me.
§181Pro di immortales, Pistoclerum conspicor.
By the immortal gods, I see Pistoclerus!
§182o Pistoclere, salve.
O Pistoclerus, hail!
§182bSalve, Chrysale.
Hail, Chrysalus!
§183Compendi verba multa iam faciam tibi.
I will now make many words a saving for you.
§184venire tu me gaudes: ego credo tibi; §185hospitium et cenam pollicere, ut convenit §186peregre advenienti: ego autem venturum adnuo.
You rejoice that I am coming: I believe you; you promise hospitality and dinner, as is fitting for one arriving from abroad: and I, on my part, agree to come.
I bring you complete greetings from your friend: you will ask me where he is: he is alive.
§188bNempe recté valet?
Surely he is in good health?
§189Istuc volebam ego ex te percontarier.
That very thing I wanted to inquire of you.
§190Qui scire possum?
How can I know?
§190bNullus plus.
No one better.
§190cQuemnam ad modum?
In what way, pray?
§191Quia si illa inventa est, quam ille amat, recte valet; §192si non inventa est, minus valet moribundusque est.
Because if she has been found whom he loves, he is in good health; if she has not been found, he is not well and is near death.
§193animast amica amanti: sí abest, nullus est; §194si adest, res nullast: ipsus est—nequam et miser.
A mistress is the soul to a lover: if she is absent, he is nothing; if she is present, his property is nothing: he himself exists—worthless and wretched.
§195sed tu quid factitasti mandatis super?
But what have you been doing regarding his commands?
§196Egon ut, quod ab illoc attigisset nuntius,
What, I? That I (should neglect) what the messenger had touched upon from him?